My first win for The MI Racing Academy

Milton Keynes Race Four

It was a wet day making the course slippy and windy. It also ment that my field was really small so we got to race with the boys. Racing with the boys is very different to racing with the girls as there are more attacks and the pace is a lot higher. 

I got dropped by the bunch very early on forming a small group, (of about 5 people), where the boys did loads of solo breakaways, but the girls stayed together. After we had caught the boys back up the one of them attacked again which I went with. Luckily, it stuck so we caught the group ahead of us, who were lapped so I didn't have to worry that there were some girls in there. I attacked again hoping the boy who I came with will come with me but he didn't, so I was out on my own for 2 laps. He caught me up with another girl hanging of the back. As it came up to the last lap and the sprint, I sprinted I overtook the boy and came to win the U14 girls!

                       This is me sprinting for the finish!

This was a big win to me because Milton Keynes has a very strong field of riders. As it turned out, the girl who came second I had lapped, which I was also extremely surprised at!

It was a good end to the mini series!  Overall I won enough points to finish in the top 3 (we think 2nd but not sure yet). 

It also got me in the Loughborough Echo!

Super Saturday!!

Milton Keynes Race Three

I've had a good season so far, coming 5th in race one, and 7th in race two; this was race three. My goal for the race was to get better positioning in the bunch. It's really hard as I'm an under 14 racing with the under 16s.

I did a long warm up and my mind was raring to go. The course was the same as race two, coming down the hill round the back and up the other hill to the finish line. The positioning really mattered, if you were on the wrong side on the corners you may get stuck on the apex of the corners also if you were behind on the climb the gap would only get bigger - at the front you could go slower!

By the time lap four came along I had already achieved my goal, I was up near the front almost every lap. Although, the racing was more aggressive then I was used to. This helped with gaining confidence for Assen (this is the big European race I've entered for the summer). Fortunately, every time someone decided to attack the group would swallow them up quickly and slow meaning I could close down the couple of meters gap that had opened up. 

5 laps to go was a exciting lap as there was a crash so everyone was being cautious and riding slow, this helped me recover! The whole group coming slowly down the hill woth 4 to go felt funny as none of us new whether the rider had got out of the road of the dead corner. They had. 

When the bell rang out I was still sitting in the group (positioned farly well) coming up the hill everyone was sprinting fast and I wasn't used to sprinting in the group. I came over the line 16th out of the under 16s and 8th out of the under 14s. 

Overall I'm happy with my ride.